Ukraine: Politician Is Attacked While Campaigning

By Reuters

Sept. 30, 2014

A lawmaker from the party of the ousted Ukrainian president was attacked Tuesday by a crowd in the Black Sea port of Odessa during campaigning for a parliamentary election set for Oct. 26. The lawmaker, Nestor I. Shufrich, a deputy in the Party of Regions and a defender of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, was left bleeding from blows to the face. He was bundled into a van by his bodyguards. Supporters said Mr. Shufrich had been campaigning on behalf of an opposition bloc running against pro-Western and Ukrainian nationalist parties. Odessa lies to the west of Crimea, which Russia annexed in March after the overthrow of its ally President Viktor F. Yanukovych.

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